Cologne just got richer - in art - and in vision 🙌
The Freunde der ART COLOGNE e.V. have once again done what they do best: strengthen the city’s museums with bold, smart, future-shaping acquisitions straight from ART COLOGNE 2025.
Four works. Four artistic voices. One mission: keep Cologne’s public collections alive, questioning, vibrant — and accessible to all.
🖼 Hélène Binet, Kolumba 01 (2007)
Acquired for the
@Koelnisches_Stadtmuseum from
@ammann_gallery
A precise, poetic image from the master of architectural photography — and the first work in the collection to truly grasp Zumthor’s Kolumba through an artist’s lens.
🎥 Margaret Raspé, Schweineschnitzel (1973)
Acquired for
@MuseumLudwig from
@GalerieMolitor
A groundbreaking feminist perspective filmed from a self-built camera helmet — everyday gestures turned into radical critique. An important addition to Ludwig’s international feminist holdings.
✏️ Andrea Pichl, Stasi Zentrale 2 (2021/22)
Nine drawings acquired for Museum Ludwig from
@NagelDraxler
Forensic, haunting, exacting: Pichl maps the interiors of the former Stasi headquarters, exposing the architecture of surveillance and the banality of control.
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@RenateBertlmann , Intimacy – Streicheleinheiten (1976–2022)
Assemblage acquired for Museum Ludwig from
@LEVYGallery
A seminal feminist voice, expanding the museum’s narrative of performance, skin, proximity, and the politics of touch.
Since 2002, the Freunde der ART COLOGNE e.V. have secured more than 100 works for Cologne’s museums — all sourced directly from the world’s first art fair. Their mission: keep public collections bold, diverse, and reflective of the now.
Public art matters. Public support makes it possible. And Cologne stands stronger today thanks to it.
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